Election Petition

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 75, 26 March 1923, Page 6

Election Petition

THE OAMaRU SEAT. Per Press Association. Oatnaru, March 26. The election -petition is being $ .jlft-flav.. -by the Chief Justice Stout) and Justice i 'is hj r the Hon. |i HtJ?: Lee . against the return of I Macpherson for the * flWHiTfi seat. Sir* John Finlay leads petitioner, and’ Mr Skerrett x!o& -respondent. petitioner- claims that he had • of the-valid votes cast, - and therefore was duly elected, and large number of. invalid papers - were counted in favor of Mr Macpherson that ought to be struck off the poll; further, that a number of votes in favor of the petitioner were improperly rejected, and that these votes ought to have been added to the poll of the petitioner. Mr Skerrett,. in moving to have ItfAvpetitlon struck off the die, said the petition was addressed to the Chief ‘Justice, and was being heard • by~ Wo Justices of- the Supreme Gourti ‘He doubted very much if there was such a thing as an Elec■H 8 Coprt. Security ■ for the petition had paid into the Public Account, and not into the proper account prescribed by the LefelsJ latnre Act. v>r /'